January 12th, 13th, 14th, 2009 Tsurphu Labrang has organized three days puja for His Holiness coming obstacle year. The prayer was sited under the Bodhi tree where all the monks who attended Kagyu Monlam Chenmo were present. On the first day of the puja Kangyur and Dolma Bumtsar puja was... read more →
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January 11th, 2009 The Last Day of the 26th Kagyu Monlam. His Holiness gave the Sojong Vows and precepts in the morning, the assembly recited the Twenty Branch Monlam. The second session concluded with the annual alms procession. The Alms procession is from the Mahabodhi Stupa to the Deer Park... read more →
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January 10, 2009 Kangyur (the Tibetan name for the Buddhist sutras) procession is one of important ceremony of Monlam. At the head of the procession came the incense bearer and four monks playing gyalin. They were followed by Khenpo Hye-Neung, of Karma Jang Chub Dzong, Korea, Ven. Mingyur Rinpoche, Ven.... read more →
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January 10th, 2009 The Akshobhya Saddhana was recited for two afternoons on 9th and 10th January, and on the evening of the 10th His Holiness completed the Akshobhya Ritual with a fire puja. This began at 8.30pm, His Holiness with the sixteen retreatants who completed the fifteen-day Akshobhya retreat, gathered... read more →
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January 08, 2009 His Holiness said that regarding tomorrow’s White Tara empowerment, He will give preparation Tara teaching practice today. The image of Tara can be seen in many monasteries and stupas in India. No monastery in Tibet is without Tara. Tara is one of the most popular yidams in... read more →
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January 07, 2009 His Holiness drew several lessons from Milarepa’s story to illustrate how we should practice. The first concerned our commitment or rather lack of it, and our inability to tolerate hardship. Like all the great masters in the lineage, Milarepa renounced the world, expressed his disgust with samsara,... read more →
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January 06, 2009 The relationship between Marpa and Milarepa was unlike an ordinary lama-student relationship. Some lamas threatened their students that if they didn’t follow through instructions they would be breaking samaya, and so would go to a hell realm. In contrast, Marpa treated Milarepa like a son. Nor was... read more →
